Manual Approval Gate - CI/CD Glossary Definition
A manual approval gate pauses a deployment until a named reviewer approves, adding a human checkpoint before production.
A manual approval gate is a pipeline checkpoint that pauses a deployment until a designated reviewer approves it. On GitHub Actions it is implemented with a protected environment and required reviewers.
Approval gates give teams a controlled release step without abandoning automation for everything before it.
How to add one
Create an environment (for example production) with required reviewers in repository settings, then reference it in the deploy job with environment: production. The job waits until a reviewer approves.
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